CROSSWORD

SOUND SYSTEM ACROSS

1 Knock down a peg 6 Pastry decoration

11 Bedwear, briefly

14 Religious ascetics 15 Flying elephant of moviedom 16 Groove in a dirt road 17 Episode of intense anxiety 19 College URL ender 20 Instruction sheet segment 21 Locker room powder 22 Insurance fraud crime, perhaps 24 Battle of the ___ (Ardennes conflict) 26 All MLB players 27 Where “besuboru” is played

30 First day on the job 34 Stands by for

36 ___ Lanka 37 “Smoking” bit of evidence

38 Deal with an APR 40 APR part 43 Mork’s home planet 44 Kilmer who played Doc Holliday 46 Opposite of later 47 Like one whose peepers gleam maliciously 51 Fidgety

52 “___ where prohibited” 53 Oscar or Emmy, for example 55 Censorship sound 57 Spoken aloud 58 Oxford, for one (Abbr.) 62 High-tailed it 63 Place to play Skee-Ball

66 Big Australian bird 67 No longer on one’s plate

68 Playful weasel relative 69 Really small 70 Become worn down 71 English class assignment

DOWN

1 Concert blasters, briefly 2 Canoe, for one 3 Hathaway of “Les Miserables” 4 Vanish before a trial, say 5 Upper-left PC key 6 Luggage labels, for example 7 Portions of pork 8 Apple debut of 1998

9 “SNL” network 10 Small single-seated racing vehicle 11 Star’s publicity seeker 12 Karate’s cousin 13 Zap with a Taser 18 Georgia’s capital (Abbr.)

23 “The Twilight Zone” host Serling 25 Golden Rule’s second word 26 Uses a crowbar on 27 ___ Marley (Scrooge’s partner) 28 Well-informed 29 Famed Manhattan thoroughfare 31 Dadaist Jean 32 Songs 33 Contest submission 35 Kept for a rainy day 39 Dissenting vote 41 Sound from a lion’s den 42 Leads, as an orchestra 45 Picked up, as knowledge 48 Buck’s mate 49 “Hooray!”

50 ___ “The Rock” Johnson 54 Montgomery’s state (Abbr.) 55 Make, as a pot of coffee 56 Unable to walk 57 Not fooled by 59 Washington baseball team, for short 60 “What’s the big ___?”

61 The V of VIP 64 Hearing organ 65 Fish eggs used in sushi